CVE-2026-98449 PUBLISHED

smb: client: delete compound mids on send failure before unlock

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: delete compound mids on send failure before unlock

When sending a compound request fails, smb_send_rqst() kicks off a reconnect. compound_send_recv() still has those mids on pending_mid_q, but it unlocks the server without removing them first.

During reconnect, cifs_abort_connection() walks pending_mid_q and runs each mid callback. With no response yet, those callbacks return credits and drop in_flight. Then compound_send_recv()'s send-error path returns the same credits again. in_flight ends up decremented twice and smb2_add_credits() WARNs.

syzbot hits this during SMB2_negotiate when the socket send fails.

cifs_call_async() already calls delete_mid() before unlock on send failure. Do the same for compound chains and set cancelled_mid[] so the out: path does not delete them again.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ee258d79159afed52ca9372aeb9c1a51e89b32ee to 70783946f3b5d0c06ec7df0f5e7bec2bfad24efb (excl.)
  • affected from ee258d79159afed52ca9372aeb9c1a51e89b32ee to 8f6f8a48399f82f4a83f7b9f25b9707e0062a4f9 (excl.)
  • Version 3c57a0be487088b08d9c88998f911eb4a7ba36e4 is affected
  • affected from 4.20.11 to 4.21 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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